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API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Earlier this month Anthropic announced a generous new benefit for their Max and Team subscriptions: $100, $200, and $500 per month subscribers would get the…
How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building Spawn is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of…
every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us…
The PSF Community Service Awards (CSAs) are a formal way for the PSF Board of Directors to offer recognition of work which, in its opinion, significantly improves the Foundation's fulfillment of its mission to build a…
Introduction A backend API can process data correctly, but users still need a simple way to submit information, understand the results, and take action. While building my personal Lead Qualification & Scoring Engine, I…
Learn how to write and use thread-safe iterators in Python 3.15. This article shows how to write and use iterators in a thread-safe manner using the new tools from Python 3.15: threading.serialize_iterator…
Why traditional retrieval metrics miss meaningful similarities The post When Labels Say No, But Embeddings Say Yes appeared first on Towards Data Science.
A simulation study and a pre-period check for choosing the right design for self-selected treatments in product analytics. The post Difference-in-Differences vs Lagged-Outcome Regression appeared first on Towards Data…
On a 2,000-question test, my top two models couldn't be told apart at the usual 5% level. On a 200-question version, a different model would have taken first place about three times in ten. The post Is the #1 AI Model…
Learn three essential primitives of harness engineering to future-proof your career The post What Is Harness Engineering? A Hands-On Introduction appeared first on Towards Data Science.
In previous chapters of Agents Unpacked, we explored what makes an AI agent different from a chatbot and how the model, its tools, and the software connecting them work together. You ask an AI agent whether you’ll need…
Using xs on a multi-indexed Python Pandas data frame drops the named level — unless you use drop_level=False: ( pd .read_parquet('taxi_2025-11.parquet') .groupby(['passenger_count', 'VendorID'])['total_amount'].mean()…
Maybe it’s YAGNI, but I was noticing that the gzip header contains an “operating system ID” byte. Python learned to consistently set this byte to 255 when writing files (an aid to reproducibility of gzippped). However,…
The article explains how Peter Hoffmann built an efficient, mobile-friendly map of 33,437 Alpine peaks using Python, JavaScript, and Leaflet, without a database or application server.
Johnny Metz demonstrates how Django's bulk operations silently bypass model save signals, potentially leaving search indexes, caches, and audit logs out of sync with the database. He introduces a custom QuerySet that…
A security researcher discovered a sandbox escape in AWS's managed MCP Server by exploiting Python's match/case pattern matching and __match_args__ to bypass restrictions on sensitive attribute access. The exploit…
The author details how he trained a 3.8-billion-parameter language model on 65 billion tokens in 43 hours using eight NVIDIA B200 GPUs for approximately $998. Through experiments with FP8 precision, optimizers, model…